MASONIC INFORMATION CENTER ANNOUNCES 2007 MARK TWAIN AWARD WINNERS FOR EXEMPLARY WORK IN MASONIC AWARENESS

Contact: Richard Fletcher, Executive Secretary, Masonic Information Center

301-588-4010, msana@ix.netcom.com

Silver Spring, MD, DATE, 2008 – The Masonic Information Center (MIC) announces the 2007 winners of the coveted Mark Twain Award for Masonic Awareness. The Twain Award honors lodge leadership for asserting an energetic identity for Freemasonry that is consistent with the fraternity’s historic focus on education, self-improvement, good works, and fellowship.

Richard E. Fletcher, Executive Secretary of the Masonic Information Center says, “The number of entries more than doubled in 2007, and the quality of the winners raised the bar for next year’s competition.” Fletcher continues, “The MIC provides Twain Award competition guidelines through its website and through numerous publications; this year, we’ve posted online video updates at important stages of the competition.”

The Twain Award requires submission of a detailed portfolio and narrative supported with print and electronic media documentation of the lodge’s efforts to present a positive Masonic identity both within the lodge and throughout the broader community. The MIC sets the criteria for winning based upon evidence of both internal and external plans, activities, and reflections. Winners receive nationwide recognition through MIC print and online publications and a custom designed award for display.

“Lodge by lodge, we see new levels of enthusiasm for communicating the relevance of Freemasonry to members and to our communities,” says Fletcher. “The Twain competition is just one way that our new and veteran members are working together to innovate Masonic education and communication.”

Most historians believe Freemasonry arose from stonemasons’ guilds in the Middle Ages and began to flourish in the 1700’s in Europe, the American Colonies and Canada. Today North America’s Masonic Fraternity provides fellowship for over 1.5 million members.  Masons are known throughout their communities for their work with schools, hospitals, and speech and language clinics.

Find out more by visiting the Masonic Service Association of North America (MSANA) at http://www.msana.com

 

MASONIC INFORMATION CENTER TWAIN AWARD 2007 WINNERS
 

Arizona

Epes Randolph Lodge #32
Tucson, Arizona

Oasis Lodge #52
Tucson, Arizona

Colorado 

Mosaic Lodge #184
Eastlake, Colorado

Florida 

Anchor Lodge #182
Key West, Florida

Louisiana

St. Albans Lodge #28
Jackson, Louisiana

Maine 

Saco Lodge #9
Saco, Maine

Monument Lodge #96
Houlton, Maine

Nebraska  

Cotner Lodge #297
Lincoln, Nebraska

Nevada

Dhahran Daylight Lodge #55
Henderson, Nevada

New Jersey

Medford Lodge #178
Medford, New Jersey

Madison Lodge #93
Madison, New Jersey

Hawthorne-Fortitude Lodge #200
Ramsey, New Jersey

New York

La Fraternidad Lodge #387
New York, New York

North Carolina          

Thomas M. Holt Lodge #492
Graham, North Carolina

Oklahoma    

Albert Pike Lodge #162
Guthrie, Oklahoma

  Frontier Lodge #48
Stillwater, Oklahoma

Pennsylvania         

Ephrata Lodge #665
Ephrata, Pennsylvania

Texas                 

Frontier Lodge #28
West Columbia, Texas

Utah                  

Golden Spike Lodge #6
Ogden, Utah

 

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